The studio catalog starts as plain files

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:40:00 +0400

The catalog behind the studio twin, the one I’ll fill by photographing drawers, starts as a folder of plain files rather than a database:

inventory/

places.json       # generated from the 3D model, one record per slot
movables.json     # boxes and carts, and where each one is
items.jsonl       # one line per thing: name, English and Italian aliases, category, place, count, last seen
captures/
  inbox/          # new photos
  2026-10-02/     # photos and what Claude read, before confirmation

The places come out of the model build, so they never drift from the 3D model. Each thing is one line, so every change is a readable diff. Claude reads a photo and edits the files; I review the change as a git diff and confirm it, the same way I review code. Nothing needs a server until the phone app does.

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The studio catalog starts as plain files